"We may think as we like theoretically, about man’s freedom of action, we must practically start from it as the foundation of the moral law, for only under this condition is social morality possible."
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Chapter III, The Tasks and Possibilities of Social Democracy
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Eduard Bernstein
Eduard Bernstein (January 6 1850 – December 18 1932) was a German social democratic theoretician and politician, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, and the founder of "evolutionary socialism" or "reformism".
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